lcionline Chapter 182
Chapter 182
The maids and wives all stood up, and Ren Dong stepped forward and said, "Why don't you go to Yanlai Hall and have another pot of tea, I'll ask Qingfang to make it for you."
Qin Qingdong squinted his eyes and looked inside, but the gate was closed and he could not see anything.
"Has Ji Zhang come back yet?"
Honeysuckle lowered her head and said, "I'm back."
Qin Qingdong raised his foot and was about to go inside. "I'll go find him myself. Is Guan Zhou here too?"
Several maids and servants lowered their heads. Ren Dong saw Qing Fang and other maids blushing, and ordered to go to the kitchen to get food. She turned around and stopped Qin Qing Dong, biting her lip and said, "The fourth master and the young lady are in the courtyard, talking about something."
But Qin Qingdong disagreed, "Did they have a quarrel——"
Before he finished speaking, he seemed to react. He closed his folding fan and pointed at the setting sun with trembling hands, "This, this, this... It's not too late yet, so just do this... just do this..."
Qin Qingdong, who had drunk a lot of wine and had been drunk for nearly a thousand years, was actually speaking incoherently.
Honeysuckle stamped her feet and said, "Hey, Second Young Master, please go out for a walk for a while..." Qin Qingdong looked speechlessly at the roses sticking out of Shaohua Garden. Summer was approaching, and the sticking out branches were already covered with tender pink buds.
"Hiss, Pei Si is too messed up."
He couldn't tell his best friend's servant that Pei An was having sex in broad daylight, but it was better not to interfere in the affairs between husband and wife. He left awkwardly and walked outside Biluozhai. Xiao Bei saw him and called out from afar, "Erlang, did you have dinner at Silang's place?"
Have dinner?
Qin Qingdong looked embarrassed, "Shaohua Garden's dinner was served later today, so I haven't eaten yet." Seeing this, Xiao Bei thought that he had quarreled with Song Guanzhou and was kicked out, so he warmly invited him, "Come to my room to eat, and let you taste Jiangzhou cuisine."
"Great, I'm sorry to bother you, Fourth Sister." Xiao Bei didn't know whether to laugh or cry when Xiao Bei's nickname was mentioned. "Qin Er, you must be itching for trouble..."
They were joking and saying jokes on the surface, but in fact they were walking together into the house.
Meeting Madam Liu who was going out with her maid, Xiao Bei bowed and greeted her, "Madam, where are you going? Have you had your meal yet?" Madam Liu smiled and said, "I'm going to have dinner with your aunt right now. Have Silang and the second young master had their meal yet?"
When she heard Xiao Bei say that they were about to go to eat, she quickly reminded him, "Then go and eat quickly, don't be hungry."
Seeing that her husband had brought a guest, the famous Qin Erlang, Zhang Fanghui quickly sent the maid to set the table, and secretly went to the kitchen to add a few dishes of side dishes and the newly brewed spring wine from Jiangzhou.
After everything was arranged, he took the child to the girls' rooms.
Qin Qingdong said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to be polite. Silang and I have always known each other, so it's okay for us to eat together."
He had dined at the same table with Song Guanzhou and Jin Fuyun many times, and didn't care much about the differences between men and women.
But Zhang Fanghui blushed, "That won't do. I am not good at etiquette and I am afraid of offending the Second Young Master. Besides, the child is young and doesn't know etiquette. He will definitely disturb us while having a meal together." After that, she bowed and took Rui Ge'er out.
Xiao Bei smiled and said, "You are very brave now. Don't scare my wife. My wife is not as bold as An Ge'er's family. Not to mention eating with you, even if we have a quarrel, she is not afraid of you at all."
Qin Qingdong sat down, shook his head and laughed.
"By the way, have you sent that blind Wulang back home?"
Xiao Bei picked up the kettle and poured wine for Qin Qingdong. When he asked about Xiao Cang, he was helpless. "Uncle wanted to be sent back, but his buttocks were full of sores, and he had a high fever from time to time. He kept talking nonsense every day. After my aunt and eldest sister visited him, they couldn't bear it and begged for mercy, saying that he would be sent back after he got better. Now he is just imprisoned in Nuanfeng Garden without freedom."
Of course, freedom is useless if you complain all the time.
"Then we can go and trouble Guan Zhou."
The two of them were toasting each other and enjoying the meal when Chun Ge's voice came from outside, "Have you seen my Erlang?" Xiao Bei's servant pointed inside the room, "Erlang is drinking with my Fourth Young Master in the room."
Qin Qingdong called out, "Brother Chun, what's going on?"
Chun Ge ran in with his legs clacking, greeted Xiao Bei, turned around and said, "The old lady sent Uncle Quan over to tell you something important. He is waiting in the fourth young master's room in Shaohua Garden. Please see--"
"I'm drinking right now, go to Shaohua Garden and bring Uncle Quan over."
Uncle Quan is the second steward of the Qin Mansion. My mother sent him here because she must have something important to discuss. However, he was having a great drink with Xiao Bei at the moment and was unwilling to leave in a hurry.
After hearing what was said, Chun Ge ran back to Shaohuayuan.
At this moment, Pei An was sitting in the main room talking with Uncle Quan, asking about the old lady's recent situation. Chun Ge ran to the door and reported what Qin Qingdong had said.
Pei An saw this and shook his head and laughed, "Uncle Quan, why don't I take you there? The person over there is my fourth cousin, and he was once a classmate of Erlang."
Uncle Quan stood up and bowed to express his gratitude.
"I'm ashamed to say that when the second young master was at home, the old lady thought he was noisy, and now that he's been away for a few days, the mansion feels empty again."
Pei An had a wet bun on his head, a big red headband embroidered with cloud patterns on his forehead, and a moon-white brocade robe. He smelled of catkins medicine, which washed away the dust of the day, making his skin look even whiter, handsome, elegant, and as sharp as a diamond.
The two of them missed each other by half a step and walked along the bluestone path towards Biluozhai.
In the Biluozhai courtyard, sisters Xiao Yinhui and Xiao Yinmei, who had finished their meal, and cousins Pei Qiuyu and Pei Shuyu, who were visiting, were inviting each other to play on the swings in the courtyard.
Several girls, accompanied by their maids, were chatting and laughing and were about to go out when they met Pei An and his partner who were walking towards them under the dim sun.
The girls bowed and greeted each other. Mei Qingyu looked at the man who seemed to have walked out of a painting and was distracted for a moment.
Fortunately, she was smart and was half a step slower, but she still knelt down and saluted with the other sisters.
Pei An bowed in return and asked Qiu Yu, who was leading the group, "Second sister, where are you and your sisters going?"
Pei Qiuyu pointed to the garden and said, "Uncle Hai had set up a swing there earlier. Now that the sisters have finished their meal, they said they wanted to go there to eat some food and play on the swing."
Pei An nodded, and said a few more words that night was approaching, so they should light more candles and be careful when playing.
When Pei An's figure disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, Xiao Yinhui smiled softly and said, "What a handsome man! Now I have finally seen him. It really is true that he is as graceful as the bright moon in brocade clothes, and his smile can captivate the whole world."
As soon as these words were spoken, Mei Qingyu looked over in the direction of the voice.
Xiao Yinhui raised her little face, as if she was ignorant, "Cousin Mei said, isn't it? If we can marry a man like this in the future, I'm afraid we will have no worries in our lives."
When everyone heard this, they were all embarrassed and didn't know how to respond.
Pei Qiuyu originally thought highly of this good-looking cousin, but now after getting to know her, he felt that she was just an embroidered pillow and a bag of straw, empty inside, and snorted coldly, "Cousin, I'm afraid you miscalculated. Now my fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law are very affectionate, others may not even think about it-"